Ep. 388 - Sprucey Soils

In Defense of Plants Podcast

In Defense of Plants

Botany, Natural Sciences, Ecology, Nature, Plants, Science

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Plants help create soil just as much as they depend on it for their survival. Understanding how this affects the ecosystems that plants comprise can provide novel and important insights into ecosystem restoration and health. Soil geographer Dr. Jim Thompson joins us to discuss his recent work on red spruce (Picea rubens) soils and how it can be used to inform everything from red spruce restoration to carbon cycles and climate change. This episode was produced in part by Don, Susan, Corbin, Keena, Robin, Peter, Whitney, Kenned, Margaret, Daniel, Karen, David, Earl, Jocelyn, Gary, Krysta, Elizabeth, Southern California Carnivorous Plant Enthusiasts, Pattypollinators, Peter, Judson, Ella, Alex, Dan, Pamela, Peter, Andrea, Nathan, Karyn, Michelle, Jillian, Chellie, Linda, Laura, Miz Holly, Christie, Carlos, Paleo Fern, Levi, Sylvia, Lanny, Ben, Lily, Craig, Sarah, Lor, Monika, Brandon, Jeremy, Suzanne, Kristina, Christine, Silas, Michael, Aristia, Felicidad, Lauren, Danielle, Allie, Jeffrey, Amanda, Tommy, Marcel, C Leigh, Karma, Shelby, Christopher, Alvin, Arek, Chellie, Dani, Paul, Dani, Tara, Elly, Colleen, Natalie, Nathan, Ario, Laura, Cari, Margaret, Mary, Connor, Nathan, Jan, Jerome, Brian, Azomonas, Ellie, University Greens, Joseph, Melody, Patricia, Matthew, Garrett, John, Ashley, Cathrine, Melvin, OrangeJulian, Porter, Jules, Griff, Joan, Megan, Marabeth, Les, Ali, Southside Plants, Keiko, Robert, Bryce, Wilma, Amanda, Helen, Mikey, Michelle, German, Joerg, Cathy, Tate, Steve, Kae, Carole, Mr. Keith Santner, Lynn, Aaron, Sara, Kenned, Brett, Jocelyn, Ethan, Sheryl, Runaway Goldfish, Ryan, Chris, Alana, Rachel, Joanna, Lori, Paul, Griff, Matthew, Bobby, Vaibhav, Steven, Joseph, Brandon, Liam, Hall, Jared, Brandon, Christina, Carly, Kazys, Stephen, Katherine, Mohsin Kazmi Takes Pictures, Manny, doeg, Daniel, Tim, Philip, Tim, Lisa, Brodie, Bendix, Irene, holly, Sara, and Margie.

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to the Indefensive Plants Podcast, the official podcast of
0:04.2	IndefensivePlants.com.
0:05.7	What's up, this is your host Matt, welcome to the show.
0:08.0	How is everyone doing this week?
0:10.2	Today we're taking a deep dive into an ecosystem very near and dear to my heart.
0:15.0	If you live up north you'll see Red Spruce, Pisia Rubens, and a lot of places, but if
0:19.0	you follow the Appalachian Mountains down south they get rarer and rarer.
0:23.6	These trees and the ecosystems they comprise follow the mountain south as the glaciers
0:27.6	push them that way.
0:29.1	And they've been kind of hanging on in these isolated mountain islands ever since.
0:33.3	But over the last hundred years or so these ecosystems have taken a real hit due to logging
0:38.5	and fire and a bunch of other disturbances.
0:41.2	But to try to understand how to restore them you kind of have to understand the soils.
0:44.6	And as you're going to hear these trees are ecosystem engineers that interact with
0:48.7	and influence and create their own soil type which then helps foster more Red Spruce and
0:53.5	Red Spruce dependent species.
0:56.3	Following us to talk about this is Dr. Jim Thompson.
0:59.0	He is as he describes a soil geographer and he has a fascinating perspective on the system
1:04.3	and what can be done potentially in the future to restore it and potentially even hope
1:08.7	mitigate climate change in the long run.
1:10.8	I'm not going to do it any justice in this intro but before we get to that did you know
1:14.7	I have a book it's called In Defense of Plants and Exploration into the wonder of plants.
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